Sports Reporter, Strasburg, Va.

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The Northern Virginia Daily, the best small daily newspaper in Virginia, seeks a talented, high-energy sports reporter. Our four-person sports staff places a heavy emphasis on local high schools in a section that averages five pages daily. The ideal candidate will have strong writing and reporting skills and an eye for the human interest stories that take the reader beyond the final score. Daily sports desk and page design experience is a plus. The 6-day-a-week, independently owned newspaper covers the beautiful Northern Shenandoah Valley. A resume, cover letter and at least five work samples should be mailed to sports editor Michael Petre, Northern Virginia Daily, 152 N. Holliday St., Strasburg, Va. 22657, or e-mailed to mpetre@nvdaily.com. Minority applicants encouraged.

Good paper, good people, good area. Don't know this particular SE but one of my good buds is on his staff.

A former SE at this joint was fired for ripping off verbatim the work of another writer in the state. This paper has no Sunday so he cut and pasted a story from another state paper and ran it under his byline on Monday. This was in 2001 or 2002. He was fired before the day was out.

Since then, they've had a string of pretty good SEs and the paper has won a lot of awards. It's not far from D.C. and Baltimore.